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In the sixteen and seventeen hundreds, things were a lot simpler, sort of. It was lots that were super-sized in those days in, say, 10,000+ acre increments. And the McMansions of that era would just not be near one another, bad form, you know. They were big, bad, and situated, all by their lonesomes, on prominent hills on vast estates, opulence on the grand scale. The real estate agents of the day were fewer as well. In pre-revolution Virginia they represented but two main landowners: the British Crown and the Proprietor of the Northern Neck, Lord (Thomas) Fairfax.
lb obtain one of the larger holdings, one needed to be a friend of the King or the Proprietor (another name for Friend of the King) or a relative of one of the existing large landholders (those first king-sized tracts got split into merely gargantuan spreads for successive kid’s inheritances). For the 99.99999 percent of us (or them, to be more accurate) who did not have the appropriate name or connection, all was not lost however. It was possible to rent to buy, just like you can today with a TV.
In the old mother countries of Europe, feudalism precluded the common folk from any chance at land ownership. In that system, a Lord (or Earl or Squire, etc) as representative of the king holds the land. You, and this means you and me, brother, serve the pleasured) (military, taxes, oxcart repair, what-have-you) of the Lord and the King in exchange for use of land. But ownership, no that was not in the cards. Lots of folks came to the New World to get away from this system of
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